From the Thigpen (S.G.) Papers. Photograph of the J. H. Peterman Family at the W. H. Dean Home. Caption included reads “The J. H. Peterman family, descendants of some of the first settlers of Old Gainesville. Picture taken at the W. H. Dean home...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs. W. H. Jones Sr., Hattiesburg educator and primary influence in the establishment of the Eureka High School in 1921. W. H. Jones Elementary School was named in his honor.
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. This letter is an order from W.H. Brown to muster the Westville guard of Simpson County, Mississippi. Harris was a resident of Copiah County, Mississippi. He served as a captain and later colonel of the Pettus...
From the Harris (Merry B.) Papers. Letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis from W.H. Brown, Madison MaAfee, and A.B. Dilworth recommending Harris to Davis, and expressing Harris' desire to raise a volunteer regiment. Harris was a resident...
Oral history.; Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. When young, Mrs. Ruffin did domestic and warehouse work. In 1949, she began working at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital as a nurse's...
Letter from James Whitfield in New York to W. H. (Henry) Buchannon in Columbus, Mississippi, dated 19 October 1838, concerning Whitfield's buying trip to New York and Philadelphia. Mentioned are prices, vendors, shipment procedures, debt...
From the Hardy (William H. and Sallie J.) Papers. Left to right, 1st row: Ida Hardy, W.H. Hardy, Mattie Hardy Lott, son of Ida and W.H.H.; 2nd row: Mabel Hardy, Lizzie Hardy Huey, Jeff D. Hardy, Lamar Hardy; 3rd row: Edwin Huey, Blanche Hardy,...
From the Map Collection. Map showing the counties of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana from 1870. Also shows cities, towns, and railroads. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerk's Office...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. William H. Dickinson writes to his aunt Mary Caroline Belcher on 7 September 1862, about being in Maryland. 3.5" x 6"
Photograph of William Hall "Corn Club" Smith (1866 - ?). W. H. Smith was the first President of Mississippi Normal College in 1911. He served for 11 months before resigning; 4 1/2 x 6 1/2
A collection of ten interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 1, 2006 with Hattiesburg, Mississippi Mayor Johnny DuPree. Mayor DuPree discusses preparations made before the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, as well as his experiences during and after the storm.
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
